Robert De Niro’s Golden Globes Speech: Racist or Dark Comedy?
01.17.2011 | By Jack Rico |
Updated November 2025
In what had to be one of the most bizarre and most controversial acceptance speeches in the history of the 2011 Golden Globes, legendary thespian Robert De Niro, who was awarded the honorary ‘Cecil B. DeMille’ award for his lifetime work, quipped, in what seemed bad taste, about the deportation of HFPA organizers, waiters, including Spanish actor and Oscar winner Javier Bardem.
